War Cemetery Dalum

At the entrance to the largest war cemetery in the Emsland, the inscription “Russian Military Cemetery Dalum” is carved in stone next to the gate and on a bronze plaque behind the entrance: “Soviet prisoners of war whose names are unknown rest here in mass graves. Their number is estimated at 8,000 to 16,000.”

Only 37 Russians buried in individual graves, one Russian woman and one Italian are known by name, nine prisoners of war buried in individual graves are unknown. Some were reburied here or at the Catholic cemetery in Meppen after the end of the war.

For a certain period of time or in individual cases, Soviet prisoners of war from the Wietmarschen, Alexisdorf, Bathorn and Groß Hesepe camps were buried in this cemetery alongside the dead from the Dalum camp.